Cameron more popular with Lib Dems than Clegg

Or so we learn from the latest polling at Lib Dem Voice ("The most read website by and for Lib Dem supporters…"). Even after a drop in his popularity ratings of 7 per cent in the last month, Cameron is still rated as doing "well" or "very well" as prime minister by 58 per cent of those surveyed. (We are left to infer what Clegg's ratings are; worse than Cameron's it seems).

But Lib Dem Voice co-editor Stephen Tall counsels us not to draw any awkward conclusions:

I’m sure, by the way, some journalist somewhere will look at our survey figures and *lightbulb moment* pen the headline, ‘Cameron more popular with Lib Dem members than Clegg’, as the Tory leader’s personal satisfaction ratings currently stand higher than the Lib Dem leader’s do. In anticipation, can I point out that Lib Dem members’ expectations of their own leader are set much higher than they are for the leader of the Conservative party. I’m pretty confident in saying Lib Dems would not like to swap.

Perish the thought, Stephen. Why, to be a convincing Lib Dem leader you'd need to be an ardent Europhile, and utterly committed to every lunatic environmentalist cause going, and a believer in Big Government, and romantically infatuated with creaky, inefficient state-rationed healthcare, and happy to sell whatever political principles you may have had in order to climb the greasy pole, and a serial breaker of promises to your party faithful. Whereas, David Cameron…